Word: punster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read Lolita as a prurient tale of pedophilia, enters through the main gate, hoping to meet the creator of that doomed and delectable child. A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever-ever" land of artifice opens on intriguing distances. There words transform the world into metaphor and time is held exquisitely at bay by memory...
...TIME'S cover this ' week has been fracturing friends and audiences for years with this brand of humor. For Bennett Cerf, astute publisher, is also well known on TV and off as an addicted punster. As such, he has a large, sympathetic but highly competitive following among TIME writers. The urge seems to be irresistible. The signs of a practicing paronomasian at work are easy to spot: the writer hunched over his typewriter chuckling to himself, the smile twitching the corner of his mouth as he turns the story in to be edited, the expectant grin...
Theater Critic Theodore Kalem takes his puns more seriously, recalling that James Joyce was an accomplished punster. Kalem used a pun from Finnegans Wake in an Essay on the theater: "As long as playgoers are yung and easily freudened...
...salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On the side, he is a TV personality, a lecturer, and a writer of sorts. Also a show-biz nut, a pal of stars, a party trooper and a shameless punster. But he cleverly directs all these other activities toward the promotion of his product, the reward for which would fill a large breadbox with something like $375,000 a year...
...professional who crosses an influential amateur. Villard tells of one career man, an irrepressible punster, who was hounded out of the service after his chief, a dairy tycoon, overheard him say mockingly: "All I have I owe to udders...